Meet the world’s animals.

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• Gulf Coast Kangaroo Rat Dipodomys compactus

  

  The Gulf Coast kangaroo rat lives in sandy areas from southern Texas, United States, to northeastern Mexico. It carries seeds in cheek pouches and is active at night.

• Socotra Cormorant Phalacrocorax nigrogularis

  This dark seabird lives around the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. It dives below the surface to find food.

• Russian Myotis Myotis (Myotis) petax

  The Russian myotis has brown fur above and pale fur below. In Altai, bats were seen flying low over meadows and water, and cave roosts have been reported.

• Cincloramphus macrurus Megalurus macrurus

  A large grassbird of New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. It has a long tail and searches dense grass for small invertebrates.

• Goldman's Woodrat Neotoma (Neotoma) goldmani

  Goldman's woodrat has dark-tipped back hairs and cream-buff fur as an adult. It inhabits rocky deserts on the Mexican Plateau.

• Flammulated Treehunter Thripadectes flammulatus

  This large ovenbird forages in the understory of humid Andean montane forest. The Peru Aves account describes it as uncommon to rare on the eastern slope north of the Marañón Valley.

• Lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus

  A monkey of India's Western Ghats forests, recognized by its gray face mane and tufted tail.

• Halmahera Cuckooshrike Coracina parvula

  The Halmahera Cuckooshrike lives in forest and mountain habitat and searches trees for small invertebrates. The colour description is limited to one distant observation on Halmahera.

• Tree Bat Ardops nichollsi

  The lesser Antillean tree bat has brown fur and a white spot where the wing joins the body. It is thought to roost in woody vegetation on Dominica, but field observations are limited.

• Black-bellied Seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus

  This finch has black and dark red plumage, and individuals differ in bill size. Adults eat seeds, while parents feed nestlings a soft diet made mostly of insects.

• Large Flying Fox Pteropus vampyrus

  A large fruit-eating bat of Southeast Asia. A tracking study in Malaysia recorded movements across national borders.

• Nocturnal Curassow Nothocrax urumutum

  The Nocturnal Curassow lives in lowland forest of upper and middle Amazonia. Despite its name, it searches for food on the ground by day and is also active around dawn and dusk.

• Bolam's Pseudomys Pseudomys bolami

  This small mouse has yellow-brown fur and a long, heavily furred tail. It is nocturnal, shelters in burrows, and eats seeds, fruit, and small invertebrates. It occurs in southern Australia.

• Arabian Scops Owl Otus pamelae

  The Arabian Scops Owl is a resident owl of the southern Arabian Peninsula that hunts invertebrates at night.

• Mareeba Rock Wallaby Petrogale mareeba

  A grey to brown rock-wallaby with a pale cheek stripe, it lives in rocky habitat in northern Queensland. At Granite Gorge, provisioned animals began afternoon activity earlier.

• Black-rumped Buttonquail Turnix nanus

  The Black-rumped Buttonquail occurs in sub-Saharan Africa and lives on the ground in grassland and grassy savanna. Females are larger and brighter than males, with a rufous face and throat, pale belly and dark rump.

• Little Woolly Mouse Opossum Marmosa (Micoureus) phaea

  It has a brown back, a cream-to-orange underside, and white spots at the tip of its tail. The appearance comes from one specimen report; recent taxonomic sources confirm specimens from the foothills of southwestern Colombia.

• Hooded crane Grus monacha

  A gray crane with a white head and neck that also winters in Japan.

• Central American Least Shrew Cryptotis orophilus

  This small shrew occurs in Central America. Its original description notes different coat colors on the back and underside.

• Spotted Tody-Flycatcher Todirostrum maculatum

  In northern Bolivia, this small flycatcher occurs in Amazonian river- and lake-edge forest and tall second growth.

• Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus

  A shaggy antelope of grassland near water.

• Naked-faced Barbet Gymnobucco calvus

  This barbet inhabits forests in western and central Africa. The skin on its face and crown is bare, and groups use trees bearing fruit.

• Nilgiri Marten Martes gwatkinsii

  A marten recorded in the Western Ghats of southern India.

• Arabian Bustard Ardeotis arabs

  A large bird with a black crest and pale brow. In Saudi Arabia, small groups use rocky areas and wadis.